No more Joke Pauls, bank £100m for Fury... and take a brilliant bow, Joshua

REFEREE Chris Young came up with the soundbite of the Miami night when he told Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul: "The fans did not pay to see this c**p.

- ANDY DUNN

Nice line but they actually DID 'pay to see this c**p'.

The Joshua-Paul charade lived down to expectations in emphatically grim fashion.

Contrary to the ref's insistence, no one anticipated anything other than Paul running away and Joshua finishing matters mid-fight.

And the word 'fight' is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Perhaps the only surprise was that the punch that formally ended the non-contest could have done some serious damage.

A double-break of Paul's jaw is serious enough but a professional heavyweight - twice a world champion - taking a free shot at a non-boxer's chin is dangerous beyond belief.

It is why the event should not have been sanctioned by any boxing authority in the world.

The only slightly positive thing that can be said is that the lamentable occasion does not appear to have been scripted.

If it had, it is hard to believe Joshua busting Paul's jaw with a straight right was in the script.

For what it is worth, Joshua looked in good shape and completed the job with little fuss.